Elitists On The Test Bench: Ultra320 Hard Drives With 15,000 RPM

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Fujitsu MAS3735NP

Fujitsu appears to be continuing the successes of the 10,000 rpm tests. Performance values for the MAS drive are outstanding. It notches up 77 MB/s for maximum read speed and a healthy 60 MB/s minimum. Its write performance is only slightly below this.

Fujitsu's model performance continues in Business Disk Winbench: In the Highend Disk Winbench section it is only beaten by Maxtor's Atlas 15K. Once again, Fujitsu is a heartbeat faster than the competition in the access-time test and is the only model under 6 ms.

Its dominance is only broken in the IOMeter tests when large query depths are required. In this discipline, the other three drives fare better.

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Patrick Schmid
Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.